I wonder if this behaviour is legal in any way. By altering communication between third parties, I am quite confident that here in Germany, some law would catch it (computer sabotage, breach of telecommunications privacy or manipulation of documents).
It is obvious that no middle man should have the right to add/manipulate/REMOVE information from your communication. I think in Germany, it's part of their status as telecom companies.
It's not as much as good thing as it seems. Ziercke argues for the right to install spyware through a tool called "remote forensic software" - a government trojan!
The iPhone is the first GSM phone brought to the German market which is a) bound to a single network provider and b) available only with a contract. Vodafone itself sometimes has special phones for sale with *their* contracts, but they were just derived models (SonyEricsson V800), or given a head start. I don't know which category the Samsung "QBowl" (F700V) falls into, but I assume it works on any German network (no netlock, no simlock). Maybe except for the visual voicemail feature, but I guess you can't hang them for adding features to their network.
The best is: IF you know, and IF the encrypted material really IS incriminating, how does that NOT invoke your right to remain silent, as you as a defendant cannot be forced to give incriminating information?
Or does this basic rule of justice not apply here, for some reason I (IANAL) cannot imagine?
I can't believe they're still selling equipment that is not preconfigured to use WPA1/2 security.
But maybe it's a peculiarity of the German DSL market that AVM (www.avm.de/en) is now the market leader. And they DO provide their Fritz!Box series with preconfigured, random WPA2 keys and an 802.11g USB dongle that syncs the key when it's sticked into the Fritz!Box USB port.
Heck, I tried to find some "free" access in my mother's apartment. ALL her neighbours had some flavour of the Fritz!Box running, ALL were WPA2 encrypted. SIX WLANs, none of them unencrypted! For the first time in years I had to use dial-up.
Yes, it is Bavaria. And I bet 200 years ago, someone like Stoiber would have chosen to build something like Versailles. Louis XIV-complex?
I love maglev trains (I had the opportunity to ride it on a test track Germany), but this is the worst application they could find. I still don't believe it's coming. From what I read, the "contract" is not really worth the paper it was written on.
Don't most routers/modems come with a data counter? I know my AVM Fritz!Box provides a daily/weekly/monthly overview. IF the data measurement is the problem, shouldn't Comcast be interested in working with their (former) customers to resolve such issues?
Though it *is* funny, I wonder why the comment was modded funny instead of informative. Yes, the story is correct - ppl. were complaining about an antenna that was not yet active.
Then there's people complaining who live *under* GMS/UMTS antennas, outside of the antennas radio waves' reach.
OK, I checked the article source, since I have online access to the mentioned medical journal through my university.
Well, apart from the fact that I study economics and business and therefore cannot a) know about the journal's reputation and b) the authors' reputation, the article does exist and ends with a rather optimistic conclusion.
I don't have the time to even do some basic research on the authors' scientific merits (or at least check a citation database), but if YOU feel like doing that, I will gladly consider forwarding the article text to some individual (keeping copyright in mind)
So I'm trying to imagine *any* military or police uses this kind of weapon on me, the demonstrator. Now, for a second, just ignore my (dis)honorable intentions to protest. What happens when someone uses this kind of weapon on me, probably abusing it the way tasers are already being abused in certain cases? Well, I'll make sure as hell this weapon can't harm me any more (tinfoil, anyone?). And next, I'll probably be in a good mood to use any combination of intelligence, technique and force to make sure the asshole who's been using this kind of weapon on me gets "what he deserves".
So, now you're no longer restricted to heating dinner using microwaves, but you're making sure I'm becoming the enemy you're so afraid of. Full of hate and dangerous.
I'd rather see these on rooftops, supplementing power sources in a more local fashion where their impact will be minimal. ...the problem being that *this* http://www.ach-du-schan.de/wetterdaten/mini_curren tsu.gif gives you an idea of the solar power readily available for conversion on MY rooftop. I live in the north of Germany. We had fairly typical weather over the last few days (except for the higher-than-average temperatures).
Now, tell me how to power my 110W desktop PC and TFT when I have about 50m^2 total rooftop area, maximum solar power of 30W/m^2 and 40% efficiency? That's 600W peak, available for about 10-20min in the last 24 hours, with an average (night+day) of about 3-5W/m^2, giving me 60-100W on average (no storage losses calculated)?
Yes, I *do* need other areas than my rooftop. And I don't think they're available in this country.
I totally have to agree, and I spent my year in the US in New York of all places - where you CAN at least buy good food. I spent *so much* money at Whole Foods, just trying to get food comparable to what German supermarkets consider *standard*, I was almost always broke at the end of the month. I *did* like Wendy's, but only for their Chili con carne, not the greasy stuff they & their competition sold to most other customers.
When I came back to Germany, I had managed to not put on any additional kilos;)
Same here. I live in Germany - when will I be asked for ID? Usually only H&M and other stores see my ID card for a quick glance when I pay with my debit card + signature.
I think the only time the police have asked me for ID was when I had forgotten my driver's license and was speeding;) By providing some kind of photo ID they could check my license on the phone. If I had NOT had any kind of ID on me, they would have taken me to the police station to identify me and make sure I was allowed to drive a car. Of course they DO check for revoked licenses and general arrest warrants, too:-)
And hey, I don't need to worry about stuff like a birth certificate when I want to open a bank account.
I still don't see this as a "free speech"-only thing. I know Boris' parents are suing because of the movie that uses his real name instead of a fictitional one. I don't know if YOU would like your real name in used a Hollywood movie after you've become a famous "hacker" and killed yourself (or been murdered, whatever). I wouldn't.
It's also a question of dignity. It feels a little bit like the movie producers are picking over his bones, for sake of accuracy or as a marketing stunt - who knows.
Count me as another guy who can't stand this attitude any longer. It's for a good cause! For the sake of security, cut my balls off! Sorry, but I am a German who has just had to accept that his Secretary of the Interior bypassed parliament to get RFID passports with biometric information (fingerprints, face vectors) through. You know where this guy came from? He was a lawyer defending a leftist terrorist organization in the 1970s. Now it's obviously a small step from the extreme left to the (semi?-)fascist right - at least the "individual liberties" question is a no-brainer for them. Okay, it was an "or else" question: the US threatened to demand tourist visa from everyone traveling to the USA - but i'd rather accept the lenghty process of applying for a visa everytime I want to go see New York City instead of having my OWN government collaborate without any public discussion and bypassing parliament through some EU loophole.
It's the US's right to demand visa, and I would gladly comply (or not go there, whatever!) - but it's MY government's duty to act in my interest, not constantly threatening me. And besides, what's a mere 130 EUR ($150?) for a passport that's going to be microwaved in my kitchen anyway?
The problem currently facing stores is that savvy web customers are going into stores, checking the items out and then going off and finding it as cheaply as possible on the web.
Well, the way *I* shop for CDs and DVDs is: I walk into a store, don't find the product I was searching for and have no noticeable customer service. Then I try to check out a different product, out of sheer frustration. I find that there are no headphones to listen to the CD, then leave the store. At home, I find the CD I was looking for at amazon.com, with a discount, comments from other customers and the ability to listen to it before I buy. Then I check out prices and order the CD.
There goes your argument down the drain, though it surely is valid for other products - but definitely NOT CDs (essentially data with a cover sheet).
Well, I *always* liked France, now I might have one more reason to move there besides good food, good wine, wonderful landscapes, fast trains, Leticia Casta...
To be serious: I live in Germany, my DSL is a nominal 6000/640. The downstream is in fact a little slower (~5400kbit) because my ISDN box/ADSL router/modem/VoIP adapter (http://www.avm.de/en/Produkte/FRITZBox/FRITZ_Box_ Fon_WLAN/index.html) doesn't sync as good as the free dsl modem I received.
You can't usually buy DSL alone, except for some regions where competitors have set up their own DSL equipment and decided to NOT cash in on a bundled ISDN line.
I bought DSL/ISDN combined, I pay EUR 49.90 (incl. 16% tax).
But quite frankly, I don't see any reason right now to upgrade to ADSL2 here, since my provider does not yet offer the services that might make the added bandwidth worth the money. I hope the French offer better services (VOD for example - I have it, but it's overpriced, the movies suck (you wonder where they get this crap), and the server download speed does not require more than 1MBit/sec on my side.)
The C14-method is "proven" just as much as you can prove any theory - it has not been falsified yet (and I *believe* that it never will be). Don't worry, despite your drunkenness, you are at the core of the problem: it is a philosophical problem - you *cannot* positively prove *any* theory, you can at best falsify it (cf. Karl Popper, German philosopher).
The theory of evolution is as much proven or not as the causal relationship between me slapping you in the face and the subsequent pain you will feel.
Of course there are theories that seem more plausible to the average person (evolution) than others.
Personally, I have a less theologically rigid approach to science than the weirdos talking about "ID": though I *do* worship our Lord, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, I do not refrain from scientific method because I believe It created the universe as a set of methods, including evolution as Darwin described it.
"Most"? 90% of the Christians I personally know tell me that the Bible is the literal word of God, and evolution is one of Satan's attempts to derail good Christians and keep them from the kingdom of Heaven.
I wonder where you poor soul have to live. At least here in Europe, none of the Christians I know think so. Not a single one I know. Then again, I live in a country where ppl find it ok to be taxed to death and, despite the current economic situation getting worse, still believe in more state intervention (aka more taxation, social generosities). Hell, we even fund DUMB people to have more children than academics by giving them the same child benefits!
no, VAT does not have to be listed for business customers. But dealers aimed at that market must make sure that only business customers enter the store, i.e. you need to register with some kind of ID showing that you're a business customer to get in.
Metro stores for example require you to get their ID card to get in, another company I know of will only accept customers with a business customer ID at checkout.
My solution to the problem is a Siemens Gigaset Sx353 DECT base station with Bluetooth:
as soon as my cell phone (SonyEricsson T610) is in range (and mostly in its desk stand, recharging, it is available as an additional line for every phone connected to the Siemens base station.
Very nice solution, especially since cell calls to landline phones are currently cheaper than my ISDN line. Reason: Arcor, my ISDN+DSL provider is terribly expensive in regular phone calls, but their DSL is cheap. Guess why they don't bundle any VoIP routers with their DSL offers:)
I just don't get it. Do wire transfers in the U.S. have no security whatsoever built-in?
I have been using online banking for years now: I have an external chip card reader with a pin pad, an HBCI compliant EC card and an enforced limit on online transactions. Even IF I had a virus/backdoor there should be enough work to do for the attacker to trick my online banking software into doing what he wants, counterfeiting a digital signature (quite impossible) or completely replacing my screen output (quite a lot of work).
Even if I only had PIN/TAN security: 90000 is a sum that's simply not transferable because of the imposed limit of a few 1,000 EUR.
There's a way to turn the service flag off. Get VAG-COM (ross tech software, I think) and an interface cable. It cost me about 30 EUR here (the cable alone).
The problem is that you have "long life" service activated. If you want you can have it turned off and go back to fixed service intervals.
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I wonder if this behaviour is legal in any way. By altering communication between third parties, I am quite confident that here in Germany, some law would catch it (computer sabotage, breach of telecommunications privacy or manipulation of documents).
It is obvious that no middle man should have the right to add/manipulate/REMOVE information from your communication. I think in Germany, it's part of their status as telecom companies.
It's not as much as good thing as it seems. Ziercke argues for the right to install spyware through a tool called "remote forensic software" - a government trojan!
The iPhone is the first GSM phone brought to the German market which is a) bound to a single network provider and b) available only with a contract. Vodafone itself sometimes has special phones for sale with *their* contracts, but they were just derived models (SonyEricsson V800), or given a head start. I don't know which category the Samsung "QBowl" (F700V) falls into, but I assume it works on any German network (no netlock, no simlock). Maybe except for the visual voicemail feature, but I guess you can't hang them for adding features to their network.
The best is: IF you know, and IF the encrypted material really IS incriminating, how does that NOT invoke your right to remain silent, as you as a defendant cannot be forced to give incriminating information?
Or does this basic rule of justice not apply here, for some reason I (IANAL) cannot imagine?
But maybe it's a peculiarity of the German DSL market that AVM (www.avm.de/en) is now the market leader. And they DO provide their Fritz!Box series with preconfigured, random WPA2 keys and an 802.11g USB dongle that syncs the key when it's sticked into the Fritz!Box USB port.
Heck, I tried to find some "free" access in my mother's apartment. ALL her neighbours had some flavour of the Fritz!Box running, ALL were WPA2 encrypted. SIX WLANs, none of them unencrypted! For the first time in years I had to use dial-up.
Yes, it is Bavaria. And I bet 200 years ago, someone like Stoiber would have chosen to build something like Versailles. Louis XIV-complex?
I love maglev trains (I had the opportunity to ride it on a test track Germany), but this is the worst application they could find. I still don't believe it's coming. From what I read, the "contract" is not really worth the paper it was written on.
Don't most routers/modems come with a data counter? I know my AVM Fritz!Box provides a daily/weekly/monthly overview. IF the data measurement is the problem, shouldn't Comcast be interested in working with their (former) customers to resolve such issues?
Then there's people complaining who live *under* GMS/UMTS antennas, outside of the antennas radio waves' reach.
Well, apart from the fact that I study economics and business and therefore cannot a) know about the journal's reputation and b) the authors' reputation, the article does exist and ends with a rather optimistic conclusion.
I don't have the time to even do some basic research on the authors' scientific merits (or at least check a citation database), but if YOU feel like doing that, I will gladly consider forwarding the article text to some individual (keeping copyright in mind)
So I'm trying to imagine *any* military or police uses this kind of weapon on me, the demonstrator. Now, for a second, just ignore my (dis)honorable intentions to protest. What happens when someone uses this kind of weapon on me, probably abusing it the way tasers are already being abused in certain cases? Well, I'll make sure as hell this weapon can't harm me any more (tinfoil, anyone?). And next, I'll probably be in a good mood to use any combination of intelligence, technique and force to make sure the asshole who's been using this kind of weapon on me gets "what he deserves".
So, now you're no longer restricted to heating dinner using microwaves, but you're making sure I'm becoming the enemy you're so afraid of. Full of hate and dangerous.
Now, tell me how to power my 110W desktop PC and TFT when I have about 50m^2 total rooftop area, maximum solar power of 30W/m^2 and 40% efficiency? That's 600W peak, available for about 10-20min in the last 24 hours, with an average (night+day) of about 3-5W/m^2, giving me 60-100W on average (no storage losses calculated)?
Yes, I *do* need other areas than my rooftop. And I don't think they're available in this country.
I totally have to agree, and I spent my year in the US in New York of all places - where you CAN at least buy good food. I spent *so much* money at Whole Foods, just trying to get food comparable to what German supermarkets consider *standard*, I was almost always broke at the end of the month. I *did* like Wendy's, but only for their Chili con carne, not the greasy stuff they & their competition sold to most other customers.
;)
When I came back to Germany, I had managed to not put on any additional kilos
Same here. I live in Germany - when will I be asked for ID? Usually only H&M and other stores see my ID card for a quick glance when I pay with my debit card + signature.
;) :-)
I think the only time the police have asked me for ID was when I had forgotten my driver's license and was speeding
By providing some kind of photo ID they could check my license on the phone. If I had NOT had any kind of ID on me, they would have taken me to the police station to identify me and make sure I was allowed to drive a car. Of course they DO check for revoked licenses and general arrest warrants, too
And hey, I don't need to worry about stuff like a birth certificate when I want to open a bank account.
Not necessary. They'll go to hell for tagging the name on their bloatware anyways. Trust in God.
I still don't see this as a "free speech"-only thing. I know Boris' parents are suing because of the movie that uses his real name instead of a fictitional one. I don't know if YOU would like your real name in used a Hollywood movie after you've become a famous "hacker" and killed yourself (or been murdered, whatever). I wouldn't.
It's also a question of dignity. It feels a little bit like the movie producers are picking over his bones, for sake of accuracy or as a marketing stunt - who knows.
Actually, it's just a new honorary title for some of their marketing staff :-)
Count me as another guy who can't stand this attitude any longer. It's for a good cause! For the sake of security, cut my balls off! Sorry, but I am a German who has just had to accept that his Secretary of the Interior bypassed parliament to get RFID passports with biometric information (fingerprints, face vectors) through. You know where this guy came from? He was a lawyer defending a leftist terrorist organization in the 1970s. Now it's obviously a small step from the extreme left to the (semi?-)fascist right - at least the "individual liberties" question is a no-brainer for them. Okay, it was an "or else" question: the US threatened to demand tourist visa from everyone traveling to the USA - but i'd rather accept the lenghty process of applying for a visa everytime I want to go see New York City instead of having my OWN government collaborate without any public discussion and bypassing parliament through some EU loophole.
It's the US's right to demand visa, and I would gladly comply (or not go there, whatever!) - but it's MY government's duty to act in my interest, not constantly threatening me. And besides, what's a mere 130 EUR ($150?) for a passport that's going to be microwaved in my kitchen anyway?
The problem currently facing stores is that savvy web customers are going into stores, checking the items out and then going off and finding it as cheaply as possible on the web.
Well, the way *I* shop for CDs and DVDs is: I walk into a store, don't find the product I was searching for and have no noticeable customer service. Then I try to check out a different product, out of sheer frustration. I find that there are no headphones to listen to the CD, then leave the store.
At home, I find the CD I was looking for at amazon.com, with a discount, comments from other customers and the ability to listen to it before I buy. Then I check out prices and order the CD.
There goes your argument down the drain, though it surely is valid for other products - but definitely NOT CDs (essentially data with a cover sheet).
Well, I *always* liked France, now I might have one more reason to move there besides good food, good wine, wonderful landscapes, fast trains, Leticia Casta...
_ Fon_WLAN/index.html) doesn't sync as good as the free dsl modem I received.
To be serious: I live in Germany, my DSL is a nominal 6000/640. The downstream is in fact a little slower (~5400kbit) because my ISDN box/ADSL router/modem/VoIP adapter (http://www.avm.de/en/Produkte/FRITZBox/FRITZ_Box
You can't usually buy DSL alone, except for some regions where competitors have set up their own DSL equipment and decided to NOT cash in on a bundled ISDN line.
I bought DSL/ISDN combined, I pay EUR 49.90 (incl. 16% tax).
But quite frankly, I don't see any reason right now to upgrade to ADSL2 here, since my provider does not yet offer the services that might make the added bandwidth worth the money. I hope the French offer better services (VOD for example - I have it, but it's overpriced, the movies suck (you wonder where they get this crap), and the server download speed does not require more than 1MBit/sec on my side.)
The C14-method is "proven" just as much as you can prove any theory - it has not been falsified yet (and I *believe* that it never will be). Don't worry, despite your drunkenness, you are at the core of the problem: it is a philosophical problem - you *cannot* positively prove *any* theory, you can at best falsify it (cf. Karl Popper, German philosopher).
The theory of evolution is as much proven or not as the causal relationship between me slapping you in the face and the subsequent pain you will feel.
Of course there are theories that seem more plausible to the average person (evolution) than others.
Personally, I have a less theologically rigid approach to science than the weirdos talking about "ID": though I *do* worship our Lord, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, I do not refrain from scientific method because I believe It created the universe as a set of methods, including evolution as Darwin described it.
I wonder where you poor soul have to live. At least here in Europe, none of the Christians I know think so. Not a single one I know.
Then again, I live in a country where ppl find it ok to be taxed to death and, despite the current economic situation getting worse, still believe in more state intervention (aka more taxation, social generosities). Hell, we even fund DUMB people to have more children than academics by giving them the same child benefits!
no, VAT does not have to be listed for business customers. But dealers aimed at that market must make sure that only business customers enter the store, i.e. you need to register with some kind of ID showing that you're a business customer to get in.
Metro stores for example require you to get their ID card to get in, another company I know of will only accept customers with a business customer ID at checkout.
My solution to the problem is a Siemens Gigaset Sx353 DECT base station with Bluetooth:
:)
as soon as my cell phone (SonyEricsson T610) is in range (and mostly in its desk stand, recharging, it is available as an additional line for every phone connected to the Siemens base station.
Very nice solution, especially since cell calls to landline phones are currently cheaper than my ISDN line. Reason: Arcor, my ISDN+DSL provider is terribly expensive in regular phone calls, but their DSL is cheap. Guess why they don't bundle any VoIP routers with their DSL offers
I just don't get it. Do wire transfers in the U.S. have no security whatsoever built-in?
I have been using online banking for years now: I have an external chip card reader with a pin pad, an HBCI compliant EC card and an enforced limit on online transactions. Even IF I had a virus/backdoor there should be enough work to do for the attacker to trick my online banking software into doing what he wants, counterfeiting a digital signature (quite impossible) or completely replacing my screen output (quite a lot of work).
Even if I only had PIN/TAN security: 90000 is a sum that's simply not transferable because of the imposed limit of a few 1,000 EUR.
What do these people use? A 4-digit PIN only?
There's a way to turn the service flag off. Get VAG-COM (ross tech software, I think) and an interface cable. It cost me about 30 EUR here (the cable alone).
:-)
The problem is that you have "long life" service activated. If you want you can have it turned off and go back to fixed service intervals.
Says the guy with the 155hp TDI